[ti:Closer to the Bone] [ar:Luis Prima] [al:Luis Prima, The Pump Song] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Closer to the Bone - Luis Prima [00:03.05]Written by:Louis Jones [00:06.11]Closest to the bone [00:08.89]Sweeter is the meat [00:11.63]Last slice of Virginia ham [00:13.94]Is the best that you can eat [00:17.05]Don't talk about my baby [00:19.46]She's slender but she's sweet [00:22.40]Closest to the bone [00:24.76]And sweeter is the meat [00:27.69]Now she'd make a good thermometer [00:30.15]If she drank a glass of wine [00:33.15]She's built just like a garter snake [00:35.92]She climbs up like a vine [00:38.27]My friends tell me I'm a fool [00:41.26]To love a girl like that [00:43.95]Here's the reason I like 'em slim [00:46.37]Instead of big and fat [00:48.88]'Cause closest to the bone [00:52.17]Sweeter is the meat [00:54.79]Last slice of Virginia ham [00:57.17]Is the best that you can eat [01:00.08]Now don't talk about my baby [01:02.58]She's slender but she's sweet [01:05.37]Umm closest to the bone [01:07.69]And sweeter is the meat [01:10.46]Let's go [01:12.81]Yeah let's go yeah boy [01:26.81]Attaboy [01:29.39]One more one more [01:31.37]One more one more [01:33.82]Yeah boy [01:34.90]In the moonlight [01:42.12]Yeah closest to the bone yeah [01:48.75]Ahh look out now [02:39.06]Now she'd make a first class fountain pen [02:42.09]If she only knew how to write [02:44.71]Her figure's like a piece of string [02:47.15]Umm she rolls up every night [02:49.59]Everybody thinks that I'm a nut [02:52.66]To love this lovely worm [02:54.97]Boy there's one reason I like 'em slim [02:57.37]Instead of round and firm [02:59.94]'Cause closest to the bone [03:03.77]Sweeter is the meat [03:06.57]Last slice of Virginia ham [03:08.85]Is the best that you can eat [03:11.26]Now don'cha talk about my baby [03:14.23]She's slender but she's sweet umm [03:17.27]Closest to the bone [03:19.05]Umm sweet I got another one now [03:21.33]Listen here [03:22.25]Umm she'd make a fine piccolo [03:25.04]If she only stayed on key [03:27.72]Boy she's shaped like a rubber band [03:30.27]And she loves to snap at me [03:33.25]Everybody thinks I'm insane [03:35.92]To overlook her faults [03:38.34]But here's the reason I like 'em skinny [03:40.70]Instead of full of schmaltz [03:43.48]'Cause closest to the bone [03:46.88]Sweeter is the meat [03:49.62]Last slice of Virginia ham [03:52.07]Is the best that you can eat [03:54.83]Don't talk about my baby [03:57.31]She's slender but she's sweet [03:59.85]And it's closest to the bone [04:02.53]And sweeter is the meat